Enterprise Geospatial Deployment Manager

Enterprise Geospatial Deployment Manager - Austin

This position is based in Mountain View, CA; New York, NY; Reston, VA or Austin, TX. The area: Enterprise As the leader in cloud computing, Google's Enterprise division delivers cloud services and other IT products to small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies. Our team of high-achieving engineers, product managers, sales, marketing and support professionals works with a vast array of partners and customers to advance the company's mission to organize the world's information to make it universally accessible and useful. The Enterprise team is among a handful of rapidly emerging new businesses that are becoming front-and-center for Google as it enters its second decade as a company. The role: Enterprise Geospatial Deployment Manager Deployment Managers work with Google's customers and partners to deploy Google's Geospatial Enterprise (primarily Google Maps API Premier and Google Earth Enterprise) Products, and to help create the tools and processes to support deployment. You will provide technical deployment assistance and solution design as part of a global Geospatial service line, and will support your deployments with project management tasks to ensure successful deployment of customer solutions. You will also work closely with product engineers, the Geospatial support team, and sales engineers to improve the product's vision and to make Google customers successful in deploying the product. Responsibilities: Work with customers and partners, both remotely and onsite, to design and implement geospatial solutions using Google products such as Maps API Premier and Google Earth Enterprise software. Provide hands-on technical implementation and guidance for Google Maps API Premier and Google Earth Enterprise products, including working on customer applications, authoring documentation and code samples, and performing system configuration. Identify and document bugs and feature requests in the products and work with engineers and customers to implement effective solutions. Work closely with engineers, product managers and sales engineers to improve the products, up to and including suggested changes to the product code. Design and deliver enablement tools and best practices to help customers and partners deploy Google's geospatial solutions more effectively. Minimum Qualifications: 2 years of industry experience in a customer-facing role in professional services, software development, systems integration or systems engineering, preferably with project or account management experience Preferred Qualifications: BS degree in Computer Science or related technical degree Experience developing web-based (preferably geospatial) applications; strong understanding of web development protocols (HTML5, AJAX, XML, JSON), preferably with good understanding of Geospatial technologies (KML, GeoRSS, etc) Demonstrated experience in managing multiple streams of work, and complex customer requirements Proactive, can-do attitude, follow-through, resourcefulness, attention to detail and verbal and written communication skills Good Linux system administration and scripting (Bash, Python or Perl) skills strongly preferred with hands-on experience developing, implementing and supporting geospatial applications Extensive travel (50% or more), potentially including international travel